Gore to publish second book on global warming: 'An Inconvenient Truth'

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Jan. 25, 2006

Gore to publish second book on global warming

NEW YORK -- Former Vice President Al Gore's second book about global warming will be published in April with the title "An Inconvenient Truth," his publisher Rodale Books said Tuesday. Gore, the Democrat who lost to George W. Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election, has been a long-standing campaigner on environmental issues. The book is tied to a documentary of the same title about Gore's environmental campaigning which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. It follows up on Gore's successful 1992 book "Earth in The Balance." (Reuters)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001883953

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1. About the film, screening today at Sundance Film Festival

Extreme poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease, hatred of all stripes–these are a few of the scourges we live with today. And yet global climate change trumps them all; for if it's not addressed, all life on the planet will be devastated, regardless of geography, class, race, or creed. The Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice President Al Gore, who became interested in this startling issue while at college 30 years ago, and now devotes his life to reversing global warming. Traveling the world, he has built a visually mesmerizing presentation designed to disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. The heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia lecture itself, where Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap melting, drought, and rising sea levels. Interwoven with this riveting public address are intimate moments revealing the poetic, searching side of Gore as he struggles to define his purpose in the aftermath of the 2000 election. This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option–in fact, it's immoral.— Caroline Libresco


Executive Producers : Jeff Skoll, Davis Guggenheim
Producers : Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns
Coproducer : Lesley Chilcott
Editors : Jay Cassidy, Dan Swietlik

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/Default.aspx

[NYCGirl]

2. God, I love President Gore!

I weep for what we lost — but maybe not for much longer.

:loveya:

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3. that really sounds interesting

"humor and searing intelligence"

[Uncle Joe]

4. I am so looking forward to this film and his new book!

Kicked and nominated!

:kick:

[Lisa]

5. sounds like a thoughtful and compelling film

I'm really looking forward to it. By the way, the science and policy issues he discussed in his first book hold up quite well, after more than a decade.